FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners “I can’t wait until things go back to normal.” That instinct lives deep within us. Whenever life becomes uncomfortable or unfamiliar, we want what is predictable. Even if [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners Most of us know the Gospel story of the woman at the well (Jn 4:1-42). Jesus and His disciples, traveling to Galilee, took the harder route through, not [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners The love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is what the Samaritan woman in today’s Gospel Reading is seeking. Jesus knows better than she does what kind of [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners If you’ve ever prayed the Rosary, odds are good you know the Salve Regina — the Hail, Holy Queen, a prayer passed down to us from the Middle [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners It is so easy to look with contempt and bemusement at many of the characters we encounter in the Scriptures. The Israelites saw the Red Sea open before [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners One of my greatest fears—one that returns to me often, sometimes daily—is not failure, suffering, or even persecution. It is something much subtler and far more dangerous. My [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners Christ tells us in today’s Gospel that, “your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.” In this one [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners Today’s Gospel passage is the first twelve verses of the fifth chapter of Matthew: the start of the Sermon on the Mount. In our own day, preachers often [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners This Sunday’s Scripture passages focus our attention upon the Word of God. The Gospel Reading is from only the fourth of the 28 chapters of Matthew’s Gospel account. [...]
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK My Dear Parishioners As I was discerning my vocation Cathedral Seminary Residence in NY, I was particularly struck by a famous quote from St. John Henry Newman, which was used in [...]
